“All violence is intolerable and will be the subject of a relentless response to ensure the return of republican order.” Emmanuel Macron decided to “declare a state of emergency in New Caledonia” at the end of the defense council held this morning, the Elysée announced in a press release on Wednesday May 15. The Elysée also announces a new toll of three deaths, after two nights of riots in the archipelago which also left several hundred injured. At a press conference, Louis Le Franc, the High Commissioner of the Republic, described the situation as“insurrectional”according to his words reported by New Caledonia The 1st. Follow our live stream.
A gendarme seriously injured by gunfire, his life threatening. A mobile gendarme was seriously injured by gunfire in the Plum sector in New Caledonia, France Télévisions learned from a source close to the matter. His vital prognosis is in jeopardy, according to the same source.
The main parties are calling for “calm and reason”. “We are convinced that it is through dialogue and resilience that we can collectively emerge from this situation”declared the main pro-independence and non-independence parties of the archipelago in a joint statement, calling “calm and reason”.
The National Assembly adopts the reform. The National Assembly adopted the constitutional revision reforming the electoral body, much criticized by the separatists, on the night of Tuesday May 14 to Wednesday May 15. The text received 351 votes for and 153 against. The left opposed its adoption.